New paper (Quesada): Isolation and Masking Guidance in Office Workplaces
New paper led by Maria Garcia Quesada in Epidemics: Modeling the Impact of U.S. Isolation and Masking Guidance on SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Office Workplaces in 2021–2022. A network model representing contacts in the home, office, and community was parameterized with CorporateMix contact data and calibrated to the COVID-19 epidemic in Georgia from January 2021 through August 2022. Workplace transmission accounted for a small fraction of total infections at the reference level of adherence to CDC isolation and masking guidance. Raising adherence among office workers alone had limited additional benefit, given low workplace contact intensity and hybrid work arrangements, whereas raising adherence across the broader population was more effective at reducing cases and deaths among office workers.